this EHPAD is in a deplorable state despite the alarm bells

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At the last municipal council of Paimpol (Côtes-d'Armor), Christine Le Vay, elected from the minority, questioned the assembly on the state of the Ty Tud Coz EHPAD, adjacent to the hospital center.

Ty Tud Coz is in a deplorable state and I quote the words of the former director of the hospital Patrick Remy. It's time to do something.

She cited the lack of functionality of the premises which does not allow residents to go out, a elevator poorly adapted, no shower in the rooms, walls so thin that the residents' clothes are pitted mold in the cupboards.

It is important that an alarm bell is sounded in Paimpol.

Especially since, despite these indecent conditions, it costs 2 080 € per month to the families of the 60 residents.

“Urban legend”

The mayor of Paimpol, Fanny Chappé agrees: “There are two subjects, the living conditions of residents and the working conditions of nursing home staff.”

But the elected official wanted to set the record straight regarding what she calls a “urban legend” which would make it responsible for the abandonment of the project to reconstruct a new nursing home on the Goas Plat site.

“In a letter that I received, the opposition mentions a project to reconstruct Ty Tud Coz in Goas Plat launched by my predecessor Jean-Yves de Chaisemartin and mentioned as a “track” by the former director. All for the sum of 8 million euros. Project that I would have stopped by wanting to install housing on this site.”

However, indicates the mayor:

This so-called new nursing home project caused a lot of hope and then anger. The legend is fueled by confusion over the status of the Paimpol and Bréhat nursing homes, hospital establishments which therefore do not depend on the town hall. In the imagination, this “lead” transformed into a promise and even became a project in the eyes of the agents. Today, I am being blamed for abandoning a project that never existed.

The mayor claims to have requested studies concerning the nursing home project in 2020, in vain. “And where does this sum of 8 million euros ? Why not 20 or 50 since there have been no studies? “.

“Skin of sorrow”

Whatever the case, Fanny Chappé joined the opposition to denounce the deplorable state of the nursing home and recalled that it was a permanent subject of demands near the Regional Health Agency (ARS)for years.

“At the time of the merger of the hospitals of Saint-Brieuc, Paimpol and Tréguier, as president of the supervisory board, I conditioned my signature on the renovation of Ty Tud Coz, I have the letter from the ARS which I assure myself, it was in September 2021.”

The elected official then outlined the steps over the years both on her part and on that of the director of the merged hospital.

On September 12, its director reminded the ARS: “Our priority is the renovation of Ty Tud Coz”.

Vow repeated on October 18 during a hospital supervisory board and on November 8, during the establishment's planning board. “I remind you that we voted here, unanimously, on six motions to defend the public hospital.”

The conclusion is disheartening:

All these letters, all these procedures, have become simple promises from the ARS on “feasibility studies”, the renovation project is shrinking like nothing else.

Fanny Chappé

The mayor of Paimpol ended up calling on “all the forces of the territory. You can count on me but I assure you that I need everyone.”

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